"[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years."

-- Francis William Aston

#Light Quotes #Air Quotes #Years Quotes

“Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.”

Source : "The GQ&A: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Peter Scharger, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.
“The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Apr 11, 2014
“Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.15, Penguin
“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free”
“I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.”

Source : Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”
“If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.”
“How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.”

Source : "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.
“People talk about the All Woman video to this day.”

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